1761.1 T0 ARCHIBALD BARTRAM, 417 



my father and uncle died, so the best account I could have "was 

 from my grandmother, who lived some years after. She told me 

 that my great grandfather's name was Richard Bartram. He 

 lived in Derbyshire, and his father before him. Richard Bar- 

 tram had one son, called Johx, who married my grandmother, in 

 Derby. They settled in the town of Ashburn, in the Peak, where 

 they lived, and had three sons and one daughter. From thence 

 they removed to Pennsylvania, before there was one house in 

 Philadelphia. My grandfather, and his elder son, John, died 

 about sixty years past, and my uncle Isaac a few years after, both 

 bachelors. My father married, and had three sons and one 

 daughter, who died a young woman. We three sons are, at pre- 

 sent, all living. I am the eldest, and have six sons and three 

 daughters alive. My brother James is the next, hath had one son 

 and two daughters, which are all dead. His eldest daughter left 

 five daughters. My youngest brother, William, liveth in North 

 Carolina, hath one son and two daughters. 



This is the best account I can give of our family. There was 



battel, and to be advanced in the seigniories of this land,' there is to be seen the 

 name of E. Bertram.* But whether he is identical with William de Bertram, 

 who is described in Domesday b as holding under the king as a tenant in cajntt. 

 cannot perhaps now be decided. 



"This William, says Kelham, c is supposed to have been the eldest son of 

 Richard Bertram, by Sibil, his wife, only daughter and heir of John* Mitford, 

 Lord of Mitford, in the county of Northumberland, from whom Robebt Mitford, 

 the proprietor of the castle and manor of Mitford, was descended. He is also 

 said to have been the founder of the Priory of Brinkburn, in Northumberland. 



"In the reign of Edward I., 129G, the name of John Bertram appears as a 

 burgess in the submission of the Borough of Inverkeithyn, d a town about ten 

 miles northwest of Edinburgh, and in the county of Fife. The name is afterwards 

 to be found scattered at intervals through the Scotch and English records. It is 

 also found in other counties than that of Northumberland ; namely, in Kent, 

 Sussex, Cumberland, &c. In the county of Kent, there was, in the year 1247, a 

 Ralph Bertram, 8 Rector of Buckland." 



" The arms of John Bartram, as found among his papers, are as follows : Gu. 

 on an inescutcheon or. betw n an orle of eight crosses pattee ar. a thistle-head ppr. 

 Crest out of an antique crown or. a ram's head ar. Mottoes, ' J'avance,' in one 

 riband, ' Foy en Dieu,' in another." 



a Second vol. of New Eng. Genealog. and Antiquar. Reg. 25, a recently esta- 

 blished, but very valuable periodical. 



b 1st Ellis, 382; Domesday, 47. 



c Kelham's Domesday, 42; 1 Dugdale's Baron. 543; 2 Dugdale's Monas. 

 Anglican. 153. 



A 1st Rotuli Scotice, 159. e 4 Husted's Kent, 52. 



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